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Does urinary peptide content differ between COPD patients with and without inherited alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency? [PDF]

, 2017
Differentiating between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with normal (PiMM) or deficient (PiZZ) genetic variants of alpha-1 antitrypsin (A1AT) is important not only for understanding the pathobiology of disease progression but also ...
Carleo, Alfonso, Chorostowska-Wynimko, Joanna, Czajkowska-Malinowska, Małgorzata, Janciauskiene, Sabina, Koeck, Thomas, Mischak, Harald, Rozy, Adriana, Welte, Tobias   +7 more
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Development of a Multi-Task Learning V-Net for Pulmonary Lobar Segmentation on Computed Tomography and Application to Diseased Lungs [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Automated lobar segmentation allows regional evaluation of lung disease and is important for diagnosis and therapy planning. Advanced statistical workflows permitting such evaluation is a needed area within respiratory medicine; their adoption remains slow, with poor workflow accuracy. Diseased lung regions often produce high-density zones on CT images,
arxiv  

Predictive significance of the six-minute walk distance for long-term survival in chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure [PDF]

, 2008
Background: The 6-min walk distance ( 6-MWD) is a global marker of functional capacity and prognosis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD), but less explored in other chronic respiratory diseases.
Aida A, Andre P. Hitzl, ATS Committee on Proficiency Standards for Clinical Pulmonary Function Laboratories, Barreiro E, Bittner V, Bowen JB, Budweiser S, Budweiser S, Cano NJ, Cano NJ, Carter R, Casanova C, Chailleux E, Criee CP, Enright PL, Fabbri L, Farre R, Felix Heidtkamp, Frank Heinemann, Fuschillo S, Gustafson T, Highcock MP, Kathrin Schmidbauer, Koechlin C, Kossler W, Lederer DJ, Lloyd-Owen SJ, Marquis K, Mascolo MC, Michael Arzt, Michael Pfeifer, Miyamoto S, Quanjer PH, Rudolf A. Jörres, Sauleda J, Schols AM, Sciurba F, Stephan Budweiser, Stephan Schroll, Vestbo J   +39 more
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Multimedia Respiratory Database (RespiratoryDatabase@TR): Auscultation Sounds and Chest X-rays [PDF]

Natural and Engineering Sciences, 2017, 2021
Auscultation is a method for diagnosis of especially internal medicine diseases such as cardiac, pulmonary and cardio-pulmonary by listening the internal sounds from the body parts. It is the simplest and the most common physical examination in the assessment processes of the clinical skills.
arxiv  

Prevalence of airflow limitation in outpatients with cardiovascular diseases in Japan. [PDF]

, 2014
Background and objectives: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) commonly coexist and share common risk factors. The prevalence of COPD in outpatients with a smoking history and CVD in Japan is unknown.
Hagan, GW, Jones, PW, Onishi, K, Yoshimoto, D   +3 more
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Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria in Respiratory Specimens of Patients with Obstructive Lung Diseases—Colonization or Disease?

Antibiotics, 2020
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are increasingly a cause of human respiratory tract colonization and mycobacterial lung disease (NTM-LD), especially in patients with chronic lung diseases.
Monika Szturmowicz, Karina Oniszh, Dorota Wyrostkiewicz, Piotr Radwan-Rohrenschef, Dorota Filipczak, Anna Zabost   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of asthma and COPD and blood eosinophil count in a middle-aged Belgian population [PDF]

, 2019
Various phenotypes exist in asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). These are important to identify in order to guide treatment decisions.
Brusselle, Guy, De Buyzere, Marc, Lahousse, Lies, Rietzschel, Ernst, Wijnant, Sara   +4 more
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Tobacco Smoke Induces and Alters Immune Responses in the Lung Triggering Inflammation, Allergy, Asthma and Other Lung Diseases: A Mechanistic Review

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018
Many studies have been undertaken to reveal how tobacco smoke skews immune responses contributing to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other lung diseases. Recently, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been linked with
Agnieszka Strzelak, Aleksandra Ratajczak, Aleksander Adamiec, W. Feleszko   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Type 2 responses determine skin rash during recombinant interleukin-2 therapy

Journal of Immunotoxicology
The skin is the organ most often affected by adverse drug reactions. Although these cutaneous adverse drug reactions (CADRs) often are mild, they represent a major burden for patients.
Charline Sommer, Vanessa Neuhaus, Patricia Gogesch, Thierry Flandre, Susann Dehmel, Katherina Sewald   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

COPD and cardiovascular disease [PDF]

, 2019
COPD is one of the major public health problems in people aged 40 years or above. It is currently the 4th leading cause of death in the world and projected to be the 3rd leading cause of death by 2020.
André, S., Areias, Vanda, Boléo-Tomé, J.P., Cardoso, J., Conde, B., Fragoso, E.   +5 more
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